Penry v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
832 F.2d 915 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2006 · most notably Penry v. Lynaugh (1989), United States v. Hernandez-Palacios (1988)
20 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Stone v. Powell
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'If anything, the evidence made it more likely, not less likely, that the jury would answer the second question yes. It did not allow the jury to consider a major thrust of Penry's evidence as mitigating evidence.' 832 F.2d at 925 (footnote omitted) (emphasis in original).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Penry v. Lynaugh · Mann v. Lynaugh“[w]hether the jury must be instructed on the effect of mitigating evidence under the Texas capital punishment scheme.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“was unreasonable in response to the provocation, if any, by the deceased.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.